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Jun 21, 1976
A thief breaks into The Osborne Brothers' limo while the band is on stage in St. Paul, Minnesota, and steals Sonny Osborne's wallet, including $4340 in cash. Osborne begins carrying a handgun as a result
Jun 26, 1976
Seventeen-year-old Randy Traywick--the future Randy Travis--is charged with breaking and entering in North Carolina
Sep 1, 1976
Music executive Lou Adler and an employee are kidnapped from his Los Angeles home. Their captors free them only after Adler agrees to pay $25,000 ransom. Adler co-wrote Joe Stampley's 1983 country hit "Poor Side Of Town"
Sep 27, 1976
A teenage Randy Travis, still going by the name Randy Traywick, is charged with larceny and with breaking and entering in North Carolina. He is pardoned for the offenses 23 years later
Sep 29, 1976
Aiming at a bottle, Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shoots his bass player, Norman Owens, twice in the chest in the living room of Lewis' Memphis home
Oct 2, 1976
Two members of Willie Nelson's road crew, James "Poodie" Locke and Steven Koepke, are arrested and charged with posession of marijuana at a motel room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Oct 12, 1976
Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested for disorderly conduct after yelling at the neighbors of his ex-wife, Jaren, in Memphis
Nov 22, 1976
After overturning his $46,000 Rolls-Royce, Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested at a street corner near his Memphis home for reckless driving and driving without a license. Later in the day, he's jailed in Tunica, Mississippi, for driving while intoxicated
Nov 23, 1976
A drunk Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested in Memphis after he's spotted outside of Graceland Mansion, waving a pistol and demanding to see Elvis Presley
Dec 22, 1976
George Jones is arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Linda Welborn, in November. He's released after posting $300 bond
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